After the discussion there will be an informal reception. Anderson will be available to sign copies of her books, which will be for sale courtesy of the WVU Bookstore.

Anderson’s poems have been published in multiple journals, including The American Poetry Review, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review and Hamilton Stone Review, and her work has appeared in more than 50 anthologies and textbooks. Essays have appeared in 17 anthologies and journals of contemporary poetry and poetics.

Born in New York City in 1948, Anderson moved to West Virginia when she was 13 years old. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English, with high honors, from WVU in 1970 and a master’s in creative writing in 1973 and a master’s in social work in 1977, all from WVU. She taught poetry at Kent State University from 1989 until her retirement in 2009.

In addition, she’s received two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the B.B. Maurer WV Folklife Scholar Award from Fairmont State University for making an outstanding contribution to the preservation and perpetuation of Appalachian cultural heritage.